Santa Catarina is 1.29× the size of Occitania

Santa Catarina (state of Brazil) covers about 95,100 km² (36,700 mi²) and Occitania (region of France) about 73,500 km² (28,400 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

95,100km²Santa Catarina
73,500km²Occitania

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Santa Catarina
Occitania

What fits

Occitania is 77% of the size of Santa Catarina.
Santa Catarina is larger by 21,600 km² (8,340 mi²), which is 29% of the area of Occitania.
Measured in Belgiums: Santa Catarina is about 3.10, Occitania about 2.40.

How they differ

Santa Catarina also has the larger population: 7.6 million against 6.1 million, 1.25× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 83 in Occitania against 80 in Santa Catarina: Occitania is 1.03× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,540 km apart.
On a standard web map Occitania looks larger than Santa Catarina: Santa Catarina at 27°S is drawn about 1.3× too large and Occitania at 44°N about 1.9×, so the map shows Occitania as 1.17× the size of Santa Catarina, when Santa Catarina is 1.29× the size of Occitania.
Together Santa Catarina and Occitania cover 169,000 km², close to the size of Somaliland (167,000 km², 0.7% smaller).
The gap between them, 21,600 km², is about the size of Djibouti (21,800 km²).
At Occitania's density, Santa Catarina would have 7.9 million people (it has 7.6 million). At Santa Catarina's density, Occitania would have 5.9 million (it has 6.1 million).
Occitania's centre is 70.9° of latitude, about 7,890 km, farther north than Santa Catarina's.
Santa Catarina is the 20th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 1.1% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
Occitania is the 3rd largest of the 18 regions of France and covers 12% of its area; it is the 13th most densely populated of them.
Occitania lies about 71° of latitude (roughly 7,890 km) north of Santa Catarina, on the other side of the equator.
Shared out evenly, each person in Santa Catarina would have about 12,500 m² and each person in Occitania about 12,090 m².
Laid side by side, Santa Catarina and Occitania would cover 169,000 km², 95% of the size of Uruguay.
Together they have 13.7 million people, about as many people as Burundi.

Side by side

	Santa Catarina	Occitania
Is a	StateBrazil	RegionFrance
Area, measured	95,100 km²36,700 mi²	73,500 km²28,400 mi²
Official area	95,700 km²Wikidata	72,700 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	20th of 27in Brazil	3rd of 18in France
Population	7.6 millionWikidata, 2022	6.1 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	10th of 27in Brazil	4th of 18in France
Density	80 per km²	83 per km²
Capital	Florianópolis	Toulouse
Latitude range	29°S to 26°S	42°N to 45°N

Population: Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 95,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 95,100 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 72,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 73,500 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain. The outline of Occitania is the departments Natural Earth draws there, joined along their shared borders.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A region is drawn whole, every island included; a country is its main territory.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-12

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